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However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. If we have to fight it must be on larger issues than that...

- Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1938, about the conflict between Germany and Czechoslavkia)

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Today in Military History

January 9

1838:

A Patriot attack against Amhertsburg, Ont. is defeated by Canadian militiamen.

1916:

Complete evacuation of the Gallipoli peninsula announced

1945:

HMCS Ehkoli, a former Royal Canadian Navy patrol boat, is recommissioned in the RCN as a survey vessel

1950:

A North Star aircraft of No. 412 Squadron continues the first Royal Canadian Air Force round-the-world flight (02-31 Jan).

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